Access the full text.
Sign up today, get DeepDyve free for 14 days.
Leonor Parreira, M. Telhada, C. Ramos, R. Hernandez, Hélia Neves, M. Carmo-Fonseca (1997)
The spatial distribution of human immunoglobulin genes within the nucleus: evidence for gene topography independent of cell type and transcriptional activityHuman Genetics, 100
S. Yoshida, Y. Kaneita, Yutaka Aoki, M. Seto, S. Mori, M. Moriyama (1999)
Identification of heterologous translocation partner genes fused to the BCL6 gene in diffuse large B-cell lymphomas: 5′-RACE and LA – PCR analyses of biopsy samplesOncogene, 18
R. Siebert, A. Rosenwald, L. Staudt, S. Morris (2001)
Molecular features of B-cell lymphomaCurrent Opinion in Oncology, 13
M. Nikiforova, J. Stringer, R. Blough, M. Medvedovic, J. Fagin, Y. Nikiforov (2000)
Proximity of chromosomal loci that participate in radiation-induced rearrangements in human cells.Science, 290 5489
W. Press, S. Teukolsky, W. Vetterling, B. Flannery (2002)
Numerical recipes in C
K. Haigis, W. Dove (2003)
A Robertsonian translocation suppresses a somatic recombination pathway to loss of heterozygosityNature Genetics, 33
Kolmogorov - Smernov Statistics
L. Boxer, C. Dang (2001)
Translocations involving c-myc and c-myc functionOncogene, 20
E. Wilson (1942)
On Contingency Tables.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 28 3
A. Knudson (2001)
Two genetic hits (more or less) to cancerNature Reviews Cancer, 1
E. Lukášová, S. Kozubek, M. Kozubek, Jana Kjeronská, L. Rýznar, J. Horáková, E. Krahulcová, G. Horneck (1997)
Localisation and distance between ABL and BCR genes in interphase nuclei of bone marrow cells of control donors and patients with chronic myeloid leukaemiaHuman Genetics, 100
Jie Zhou, O. Ermakova, R. Riblet, B. Birshtein, C. Schildkraut (2002)
Replication and Subnuclear Location Dynamics of the Immunoglobulin Heavy-Chain Locus in B-Lineage CellsMolecular and Cellular Biology, 22
E. Bártová, S. Kozubek, M. Kozubek, P. Jirsová, E. Lukášová, M. Skalníková, A. Cafourková, I. Koutná (2000)
Nuclear topography of the c-myc gene in human leukemic cells.Gene, 244 1-2
L. Parada, P. McQueen, P. Munson, T. Misteli (2002)
Conservation of Relative Chromosome Positioning in Normal and Cancer CellsCurrent Biology, 12
J. Skok, K. Brown, V. Azuara, Marie-Laure Caparros, J. Baxter, K. Takács, N. Dillon, D. Gray, R. Perry, M. Merkenschlager, A. Fisher (2001)
Nonequivalent nuclear location of immunoglobulin alleles in B lymphocytesNature Immunology, 2
S. Kosak, J. Skok, K. Medina, R. Riblet, M. Beau, A. Fisher, Harinder Singh (2002)
Subnuclear Compartmentalization of Immunoglobulin Loci During Lymphocyte DevelopmentScience, 296
L. Parada, T. Misteli (2002)
Chromosome positioning in the interphase nucleus.Trends in cell biology, 12 9
T. Willis, Martin Dyer (2000)
The role of immunoglobulin translocations in the pathogenesis of B-cell malignancies.Blood, 96 3
S. Kozubek, E. Lukášová, P. Jirsová, I. Koutná, M. Kozubek, A. Gaňová, E. Bártová, M. Falk, R. Paseková (2002)
3D Structure of the human genome: order in randomnessChromosoma, 111
B. Elliott, M. Jasin (2002)
Double-strand breaks and translocations in cancer.Cellular and molecular life sciences : CMLS, 59 2
K. Stamatopoulos, Christos Kosmas, Chryssoula Belessi, N. Stavroyianni, Panayiotis Kyriazopoulos, T. Papadaki (2000)
Molecular insights into the immunopathogenesis of follicular lymphoma.Immunology today, 21 6
Rainer Sachs, Allen Chen, David Brenner (1997)
Review: proximity effects in the production of chromosome aberrations by ionizing radiation.International journal of radiation biology, 71 1
J. Vazquez, A. Belmont, J. Sedat (2001)
Multiple regimes of constrained chromosome motion are regulated in the interphase Drosophila nucleusCurrent Biology, 11
J. Rowley (1998)
The critical role of chromosome translocations in human leukemias.Annual review of genetics, 32
Hélia Neves, C. Ramos, Maria Silva, A. Parreira, L. Parreira (1999)
The Nuclear Topography of ABL, BCR, PML, and RAR Genes: Evidence for Gene Proximity in Specific Phases of the Cell Cycle and Stages of Hematopoietic DifferentiationBlood, 93
F. Mitelman (2000)
Recurrent chromosome aberrations in cancer.Mutation research, 462 2-3
SE Fienberg (1982)
Encyclopedia of Statistical Science
E. Bártová, S. Kozubek, M. Kozubek, P. Jirsová, E. Lukášová, M. Skalníková, Kateřina Buchnı́čková (2000)
The influence of the cell cycle, differentiation and irradiation on the nuclear location of the abl, bcr and c-myc genes in human leukemic cells.Leukemia research, 24 3
Jonathan Chubb, S. Boyle, P. Perry, W. Bickmore (2002)
Chromatin Motion Is Constrained by Association with Nuclear Compartments in Human CellsCurrent Biology, 12
N. Harris, H. Stein, S. Coupland, M. Hummel, R. Favera, L. Pasqualucci, W. Chan (2001)
New approaches to lymphoma diagnosis.Hematology. American Society of Hematology. Education Program
Cancer cells frequently have disease-specific chromosome rearrangements 1,2,3,4 . It is poorly understood why translocations between chromosomes recur at specific breakpoints in the genome. Here we provide evidence that higher-order spatial genome organization is a contributing factor in the formation of recurrent translocations. We show that MYC, BCL and immunoglobulin loci, which are recurrently translocated in various B-cell lymphomas, are preferentially positioned in close spatial proximity relative to each other in normal B cells. Loci in spatial proximity are non-randomly positioned towards the nuclear interior in normal B cells. This locus proximity is the consequence of higher-order genome structure rather than a property of individual genes. Our results suggest that the formation of specific translocations in human lymphomas, and perhaps other tissues, is determined in part by higher-order spatial organization of the genome.
Nature Genetics – Springer Journals
Published: Jun 15, 2003
Read and print from thousands of top scholarly journals.
Already have an account? Log in
Bookmark this article. You can see your Bookmarks on your DeepDyve Library.
To save an article, log in first, or sign up for a DeepDyve account if you don’t already have one.
Copy and paste the desired citation format or use the link below to download a file formatted for EndNote
Access the full text.
Sign up today, get DeepDyve free for 14 days.
All DeepDyve websites use cookies to improve your online experience. They were placed on your computer when you launched this website. You can change your cookie settings through your browser.